Ambassadors Study Circles

Collaborating with Montgomery County Public Schools, youth will participate in discussions focusing on race and ethnicity and how it affects student achievement. Dialogue and cultural competence will develop among teens from different backgrounds.

After School Activities Project

ASAP is offered to middle school and high school aged youth. ESOL acculturation during and after school; Go Girls, a group designed to target at-risk females and provide programs that improve their self esteem, and the Man II Man mentoring program for middle school males.

Benchmarks

This after school program offers academic enrichment and life skills to middle school youth residing in the greater Rosemary Hills community.  This program is provided in collaboration with the Silver Spring Team/Rosemary Hills Primary School.

Building on Strengths

BOSS students with learning differences improve competency in problem solving and thinking skills.  Youth learn to take responsibility for actions, be considerate of others, and work together to reach individual and group goals.  Parents learn ways to help students become successful.  Volunteer tutors work with students individually.

Carroll Avenue & Quebec Terrace

The CAQT Community Center offers an after-school Homework Club, the Man II Man mentoring program, a Literacy Program, computer education, youth employment training, counseling, case management, parent support groups, recreation, adult ESOL (English language) classes, volunteer development, and community events.

Community Connections

This program is comprised of three components:

• Recreation (through the Blair Sports Academy in collaboration with MCPS and MCRD) -- targeting students that are below the 2.0 grade-point average to foster school attachment and decrease truancy
• Academic Support -- addressing academic performance and the achievement gap through tutoring and mentoring.
• Parenting/Community Component -- geared towards increasing parent/community involvement through outreach with programs like "Conquista tus Suensos."

Crossroads Youth Opportunity Center

The CYOC provides services for high-risk youth in the community.  In collaboration with Identity, Inc., and PRIDE Youth Services, YFS provides community outreach, prevention services, positive youth development program, tutoring, literacy, GED and computer classes, job training and job placement, diversion services, behavioral health and support services, and screening and referral services.

Drug and Alcohol Education

DAES Groups are offered for teens and their parents to provide current substance abuse information and resources for youth and their families.

Horizons

YFS delivers on site school intervention programs to address climate issues at the school, specifically bullying, conflict resolution, and integration among groups.  Cooperative playgrounds, bus behavior intervention, and classroom meeting trainings are examples of services provided to schools in order to address the issues of concern to that community.

Linkages to Learning

Mental health and case management services are offered in eleven schools in the Blair, Springbrook, and Paint Branch Clusters.  Linkages staff work closely with families to improve social, economic, health, and emotional issues that interfere with the academic success of the child.

Mentoring Program

This is a multi-agency collaborative initiative among Montgomery County Public Schools, the Department of Health & Human Services, the Department of Juvenile Services, and the Circuit Court of Montgomery County.  The mission is to match court involved youth with adult mentors who would establish a caring, trusted, and committed relationship and provide support, friendship, counsel, reinforcement, and serve as positive role models to the young people. YMCA mentors will help the young people cope with their life circumstances and develop the life-skills needed to make positive choices.

Nob Hill

This Community Center offers an after-school Homework Club, Literacy Program, recreation, volunteer development, and community events.

Smart Choices

Middle and high school students, female and male, learn decision-making skills relating to sexual relationships, drugs, friendships, family, and school conflict.  They meet as a group to support each other in the role of parent and a student.  The goal is for the young parents to complete high school and have a forum to discuss issues that may impede their progress.

Sports Mentoring

This program offers young people an opportunity to bond with positive role models while participating in an activity they enjoy.  While competing with a team, participants learn to build relationships with peers.

Parenting Workshops

Communicating Success, classes for parents of preschool through elementary age children explore such topics as bedtime struggles, lying, and sibling fighting.  Parents will learn to identify the purpose of a child's misbehavior and develop effective discipline and encouragement strategies for positively redirecting these behaviors.  Parenting Teens, workshops, and classes offer parents an opportunity to become familiar with the concepts of logical and natural consequences, mutual respect, encouragement, and goals of misbehavior.  The group discussion format teaches skills to help improve parent/teen relations, develop teenage self-esteem, and promote responsible teenage behavior at home, in school, and in the community.

For a copy of the Parenting Schedule, please click here.*

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